Safety and Quality Committee

ANZCA’s Safety and Quality Committee (SQC) works with fellows and ANZCA Council to support safe clinical practice in anaesthesia and pain medicine. SQC actively monitors and evaluates safety and quality information and develops standards and guidelines, including the college’s professional documents.

Committee members

We gratefully acknowledge the members of this committee for volunteering their time and expertise.

Title	Name	Region
Chair	Dr Brien Hennessy	WA
Member	Associate Professor Joanna Sutherland	NSW
ANZCA President (ex-officio)	Professor David Story	Vic
FPM representative	Dr Duncan Wood	NZ
Australian Society of Anaesthetists president (or nominee)	Dr Mark Sinclair	SA
New Zealand Society of Anaesthetists president (or nominee)	Dr Morgan Edwards	NZ
Mortality Sub-committee chair (or nominee)	Dr Simon Jenkins	SA
Perioperative Allergy Sub-committee chair (or nominee)	Dr Karen Pedersen	NZ
Community representative	Ms Helen Maxwell-Wright	Vic
Trainee Committee representative	Dr Cristy Rowe	ACT
Member	Dr Glenn Downey	Vic
Member	Dr Sally Ure	NZ
Member	Dr James French	ACT
Member	Dr Irina Kurowski	WA
Member	Dr Nayana Vootakuru	NSW
Member	Professor Victoria Eley	Qld
Member	Dr Ben Olesnicky	NSW
Director of Professional Affairs, Professional Documents	Professor David Scott	Vic
Executive Director, Policy and Communications	Ms Clea Hincks	Vic
Committee support (non - member)	Ms Dianne Bennett	Vic

Explore this section

Mortality Sub-committee

The Mortality Sub-committee was developed as a collaboration between the chairs of established anaesthetic mortality committees in Australia, under the auspices of ANZCA.

Learn more

Perioperative Allergy Sub-committee

The Perioperative Allergy Sub-committee works with the Australian and New Zealand Anaesthetic Allergy Group (ANZAAG) to produce and promulgate guidelines regarding the prevention and management of anaesthetic-related allergy.

Learn more

South Australia Anaesthetic Mortality Committee (SAAMC)

The South Australia Anaesthetic Mortality Committee (SAAMC) analyses adverse event information, specifically patient mortality, from health services related to anaesthesia and recommends quality improvement initiatives.

Learn more